Why is "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit" considered the greatest opening line in English literature?
>>25351245Germanic pathological pit fixation
Name a better one.
>>25351245condisering this kind of fantasy was novel, it was essentially its own sensational opener. Also its concise. Something that can't be said about most authors
>>25351273>My name finna no cap be Ishmael fr ong
not english but >All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own waynever made much sense because unhappy families usually have the same reasons, which are STATED in the book itself
>>25351295Ways of unhappiness are not causes of unhappiness necessarily.
>>25351295Similarly, how can it be the best of times yet also the worst of times? Send these hacks back to school
>>25351430the guy who intentinally sold america to the kikes can't write a book who knew
Who says that? I like>The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.>inb4 zoom-zooms don't know what this is supposed to look likeDon't worry, nobody gives a shit about your miniscule intellects anyway.
>>25351862Gibson is a fucking hack and you're a tard for thinking he's good>4MB of hotswapped RAM
>>25351864Sure. The guy who invented an entire subculture is a hack. Now let's list your achievements.
>>25351245That's a good opener, I'll be honest. But I have two more in mind:>Call me Ishmael>We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold
>>25351245It constitutes existence of the fantastical race of hobbit and it's natural dwelling, very informative two lines
>>25351245April is the cruelest month
>>25351245its provocative, it gets the people going, "what is a hobbit" the mind cries out desperately
>>25351245Concise, informative, subversive, and child-like. It’s short and sweet, it introduces something unknown to the viewer (a hobbit), it subverts the expectation of a hole in the ground being damp, cold, and gross and instead sets it as a comfy homey place, and lastly it fits the classic children’s story ”once-upon-a-time” style of opening.
>>25351245But it's not?
>>25351245I thought "It was a dark and stormy night" was greatest opening line in English literature.
>>25352502>We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take holdThat's American, not English.
>>25352502>we were somewhere in the middle of san francisco when my white boyfriend began to take hold
>>25353096Negro please, they both speak English, fuck off.
>>25352502>Call me IshmaelMoby-Dick is one of the best books ever written but I've never understood why this is considered the best opening of a novel.
>>25351273I really like the opening to Dubliners>There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.
>>25355204I prefer the final line>i realised that we truly were all dubliners
>>25351273In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
>>25351283love tolkien but "concise" is not a word that belongs anywhere near him
>>25351273>THERE are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be wonder-smitten with the trance-like aspect of the green and golden world. Not a flower stirs; the trees forget to wave; the grass itself seems to have ceased to grow; and all Nature, as if suddenly become conscious of her own profound mystery, and feeling no refuge from it but silence, sinks into this wonderful and indescribable repose.
